Power loses its ordering function if anyone can resort to violence freely

Evidence

Corporal punishment did not exist at Dom Sierot. This was not a rule, in the sense of a prohibition. It was a design consequence. In a community organized around the principle that children are rights-bearing individuals whose grievances deserve adjudication rather than suppression, the hit is not an available response — because the hit is, by definition, the suppression of a grievance rather than its adjudication. The system Korczak built at Dom Sierot did not need to prohibit corporal punishment, because the system had no place for it. — , The Rod and the Child, 8863 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If, however, there is any consideration, any limit to violence, there already exists a socializing factor, even though only as the qualification of violence. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 296 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Power as damage threat cannot explain power’s order-creating function in complex societies.; Uncredible power invites dangerous testing that triggers force; Dominant powers codified their own practical invulnerability as the overriding war norm (+11 more)

Related

• Well-designed institutions can make violence structurally unavailable rather than merely prohibited. (similarity 0.88)
• Any limit on violence is itself a socializing factor (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Well-designed institutions can make violence structurally unavailable rather than merely prohibited. #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 8863
• Dominant powers codified their own practical invulnerability as the overriding war norm #corroborates (0.70)
• Any limit on violence is itself a socializing factor #corroborates (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 296
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted #corroborates (0.60)
• Law that excludes adversaries from fighting fails to restrain their violence #corroborates (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1040